HOMInG interview with Robin Cohen Conducted by Ilka Vari-Lavoisier in Oxford, December 2018. "Without theorizing home and understanding its full complexity, diaspora is largely a vacuous concept. I find myself questioning two positions, both of which I think are simplifications. 1. Home is (only) one particular nation-state from which a diaspora was scattered and to which … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW #22: ROBIN COHEN

HOMING INTERVIEW #21: IRIS LEVIN Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University, Melbourne. Conducted by Paolo Boccagni in Frankfurt, 15 December 2018. "The basic thing is that we all want to belong and feel at home. There is a similarity in the ways people construct home, even from different cultures, countries and cities, … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #21: IRIS LEVIN

HOMING INTERVIEW #20: DEIRDRE MCKAY Reader in SocialGeography and Environmental Politics at Keele University. Conducted by PaoloBoccagni in Trento, 21 June 2018 "For lower skilled and undocumented migrants it is very difficult to make anything that would resemble a home. My Filipino respondents would never describe the places they lived as home. There was not enough … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #20: DEIRDRE MCKAY

The EMES-COST research seminar Tackling the migrant and refugee challenge will take place at the Dpt. of Sociology, Trento, next November 22-23. HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni will convene a session on housing arrangements and pathways for asylum seekers and refugees. On November 24, moreover, the EURICSE national seminar (in Italian) Territori accoglienti will take place in Trento: http://www.ideeinrete.coop/articoli-home-page/32-migranti/640-worshop-territori-accoglienti

HOMInG, as an ERC grant, is two years old by now. Not enough to be mature, yet. Well enough, though, for some preliminary findings to be shared, out of the ongoing (or recently ended) fieldwork of the first generation of homingers. Most of these points are only a part of broader conversations and arguments, to … Leggi tutto HOMInG on the way: 2 years, 4×3 findings

HOMING INTERVIEW #19 with Maja Korac-Sanderson Reader in Refugee and Migration Studies, Department of Social Sciences, Cass School of Education and Communities, University of East London. Conducted by Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia in London in July 2018 "While I was still living in Belgrade, and at the height of nationalistic frensy in the country, I felt … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #19: MAJA KORAC-SANDERSON